The night is getting deeper and deeper, and the fog is shrouded in the forest like spider silk.
Before Mazak left, he left behind a sum of travel expenses, a rare starry peridot - according to Tianlan's valuation, it was worth tens of thousands of lisels at least.
In addition, he also gave a small gift to Fang Plover alone - a silver amulet in the shape of an owl. Its scientific name is the Amulet of Insight, one of the works of the blacksmith. In Aitalia, the owl is a calm and wise bird.
Class, this amulet also has the same ability to help the wearer clear his mind and improve his computing power. It is almost a superior substitute for the common sobriety amulet on the market.
But it's much rarer -
After Fang Yu put it on, he felt that his mind was clear, and his sleepiness faded away like a tide. He looked around and then asked as if he had come to his senses: "By the way, where is Hu Di?"
"When Mr. Hu Di separated from us earlier, he seemed to have said that he was going back to the hotel." Jita replied in a low voice.
Fang Plover nodded.
I thought that although the hotel was not safe, Hu Di would not rush in recklessly. Although many people died in the commotion at Travelers' Rest, many people escaped, including many who took the exam.
If Hu Di and the staff of the Lin Merchant Alliance meet up with those people, their safety should be safe.
So he stopped asking questions.
The light of the bonfire in the wind stove gradually dimmed, the firewood collected was almost burned, and everyone's clothes were gradually dried. Tian Lan suddenly stood up, patted the loose soil on his body, and proactively suggested: "Let's set off when it's almost done.
Let’s take Brother Ed to see the secret base.”
Fang Yu was stunned. "Isn't this your secret base?" He thought that this island, located in a swamp and surrounded by maze-like mangroves, was their secret base.
Tianlan shook her head when she heard this: "Of course not," she replied mysteriously: "Our secret base is much more powerful than this place. It's still deeper, sister Aitila?"
Attila nodded, picked up her spear and stood up.
The elf girl obviously played the role of a leader, and the others began to pack their things. Luo Yu put out the bonfire, stomped it down, and poured water on it to cool the ashes completely. Tian Lan on the side also took out a torch and ignited it with flint.
After the fire dimmed, Paparal woke up with a start, and asked with a confused expression: "What's wrong, what's wrong? Is that dragon back again, or is it ready to eat? Can we catch it before it's too late?"
Before you come, do you want to finish your supper first?"
"There's no late-night snack left, Mr. Parker," Kitta replied.
"Huh?" Parker's eyes widened and he tried to open them even wider, but there were always two black beans. He lay down on the ground in a big shape, stretched out his short hands and feet, and shouted
: "Then let the dragon eat me."
Without midnight snacks, Papalar people become midnight snacks.
Tian Lan burst out laughing.
Attila shook her head, took the torch from her hand, and walked forward.
Fang Plover followed the elf girl, and the team passed through a dense mangrove. The small island was overgrown with grass, and the light of the torch seemed to only be able to reflect a palm-sized area among the reeds.
There are some strange creatures living in the reeds, such as wading birds with curly and gorgeous feathers, a bit like herons, but obviously there are no such gorgeous storks on the earth. There are also some scaly Talon minks and shrews.
What you need to be careful of are snakes, the highly venomous aquatic kraits and chain snakes - but the elf girl is very talented in surviving in the wild, which is almost the job of a hunter. Not to mention that she is also a follower of Aimea, a Druid
Yi, you can always detect danger first.
The road extends deep into the land. There are only some weird dead trees along the way, and the scenery seems a bit boring. Against the glow of the torches, the starlight also looks dim, and the diffuse mist is blown by the wind, forming strange shapes like ghosts.
Jita seemed to be a little scared, and followed everyone step by step with a huge book on her back. She was walking behind Fang Plover, and accidentally tripped forward on a vine, and almost fell down - if Miss Goblin hadn't flown over to lift it.
If you hold her collar.
Jita thought it was Fang Plover who had taken action, so she carefully held the huge lens and thanked him in a low voice with a blushing face.
Tianlan murmured quietly to the side, asking Fang Lung whether the master or servant gave him this goblin? Fang Plover was actually very strange in his heart. Goblin constructs are not cheap, and it is difficult to buy them even if they don't want to buy them.
The conversation between the Papalar and Luo Yu came from behind, somewhat intermittently: "To be honest," Parker said, "I have begun to miss life in the Hill of Giant Trees. No wonder the real Papalar never
Don’t go out.”
"But weren't you kicked out?" Luo Yu looked at him a little doubtfully.
"No, that's not the case. I just think the mountain lord's hat is too ridiculous..."
"And you said it accidentally?" Tian Lan turned around and asked with a smile.
The Papalar man was so angry that he grabbed some mud and threw it at her.
The little girl screamed, laughing and quarreling with the latter.
"Are you on an outing?" Luo Yu asked angrily.
Fang Plover thought so——
Not long after the team moved forward, Aitila suddenly stopped. Tian Lan seemed to have noticed something, and stopped noisy, and rushed over with a single stride - almost knocking Jita down, she was so angry
The latter stared at her angrily.
Tianlan gave her an apologetic look sheepishly, and then parted the long grass with a master's attitude, and introduced to Fang Pulver in a showy tone: "Dangdangdang, welcome to sister Aitila's secret base.
"
"Why mine?" Attila looked at her inexplicably.
The little French girl winked at her a little mischievously.
However, Fang Yu looked at the scene in front of him and was so surprised that he was speechless.
Ahead is a giant beast.
The giant beast looked a bit like a rhinoceros, covered in long hair, with three sharp horns in a row and a long tail. It was twelve to fourteen meters long, about the length of a bus.
The flat back is almost as tall as two and a half people stacked on top of each other.
Against the background of the firelight, it looked like a swaying hill.
The giant beast felt that there were people, and turned around to look at these people curiously with wrinkled brown eyes. When it saw Etila, it immediately mooed in a close manner, like a cow braying.
"Ha," Tianlan was very happy when she saw this, waving to say hello to the big cat: "Hello, Mr. Gray Rock, we are back, are you taking good care of the big cat?"
This is a gray ridge negative hill beast——
The hill beast is a large herbivorous mammal that maintains the habit of living in groups. The square plovers know some knowledge about them. This large creature is mainly distributed in the mountains of the Stylike Peninsula and the short hill grasslands east of the empire. It grows wild in the mountains.
The Gray Mountain negative hill beasts live in groups and migrate. They are quite intelligent and gentle. Because they lack natural enemies and are very curious, they are not afraid of getting along with humans.
For this reason, Tasia's herdsmen trained them into beasts of burden and regarded them as members of the family and tribe. The culture of the Tasia people is extremely closely related to the Gray Ridge Negative Hill Beast, whether it is pack house culture or nomadic herding.
This is where the custom of wandering comes from - Tasia people will get their first property in life when they are born, and it will also be their lifelong partner - a cub. If she is a female, on the day she gets married as an adult, her gray will be
The mountain beast will be her most generous dowry.
Fang Plover turned around in surprise: "Is this your beast of burden?"
Pack beasts are the most valuable treasure for adventurers. In Aitaria, large beasts of burden are even known as land boats. They are second only to aerospace ships as a means of transportation.
When he was still in the Dawn Star Adventure Group, Miss Scarpet had always wanted to buy a large beast of burden for the team. However, because the price of a large beast of burden was too expensive, she had never been able to do so.
In fact, some rare breeds of large beasts of burden are no less expensive than low-level aerostats - such as the Catoblepas behemoth and the Thunderbird. The former is the petrified cow named after the mythical monster, the Walking Mountain.
.
That's why Fang Plover was so surprised.
Although the Gray Ridge negative hill beast is not considered a large beast of burden, it is also the largest category among medium-sized beasts of burden. In addition, the Tasians are conservative and avoid the world and rarely interact with outsiders. Therefore, the Gray Ridge negative hill beast on the market
It can be said to be extremely rare.
"Of course not," Tian Lan shook her head: "This is the beast of burden of the Kaolin Merchant Alliance. We rented it in El Paxin. But this time we made a lot of money, maybe we can buy Mr. Gray Rock when we go back.
Come down."
"This name was also given by someone from the Chamber of Commerce?"
"Of course not. What do you think of the one I picked? Is it great?" Tianlan looked like you are coming to praise me, which made Fang Yu couldn't bear to stare. He wanted to know which one of these behemoths was there from beginning to end.
Is the place gray?
But after thinking about it, he wisely chose not to speak.
Fang Yu thinks that this is why he is smarter than Luo Yu——
As for Tianlan, she also pulled Luo Yu over and introduced with some pride: "The carrying house above is Luo Yu's masterpiece. It only took a week to complete, even the little dwarfs from the Kaolin Merchant Alliance
They are all full of praise.”
Luo Yu shook his head and replied: "It all depends on everyone's help, especially Miss Atila's Druid ability, which helped a lot."
Attila smiled and nodded.
Fang Plover then raised his head and saw the wooden platform on the back of the negative hill beast. It was a bit like the elephant sedan on the back of an elephant, but wider than that. There were four in total, connected to each other - that was Taixia
Packhouse.
The so-called Tasia pack house is essentially a house on a wooden platform. It is named because it is carried on the back of a pack animal. There is a suspension bridge connecting the front and rear wooden houses, and there are hard wooden boards on the left and right.
The back of the Gray Ridge Negative Hill Beast is shaped like two saddles, like two arch bridges.
The wooden house in the front is open, with a place for the trainer or driver in the middle; the wooden house in the back is semi-sealed, more like a carriage. Fang Plover saw the Guy crystal on it at a glance. This structure is indeed similar to Tasia's.
The properties of the pack house are similar - using unique techniques of using Gay Crystal to maintain the center and balance of the platform and reduce the burden on the pack animals.
Rather than a bulky alchemical load-bearing structure.
But this was also a secret that was not passed down by the Tasiya people. Fang Pultru couldn't help but look at Luo Yu with some curiosity.
"I figured this out myself, Mr. Ed," Luo Yu said with rare embarrassment. "In fact, it uses both the alchemical structure and Guy's crystal. It's just that the alchemical structure is hidden under the platform, and its size is also small.
It has shrunk a lot, thanks to Miss Attila’s help.”
He thanked Etila again.
"No wonder the staff of the Chamber of Commerce are also full of praise." Fang Yu thought to himself, this can be regarded as a new approach, and its principle must not be simple, otherwise other alchemists and carpenters would have come up with similar solutions long ago.
Method.
Fang Yu couldn't help but glance at it again and murmured: "Is this your secret base?"
This is really an amazing base, with a pack animal and a pack house, which some small adventure groups don't even have - even though the pack animal is not their own.
He hasn't finished thinking yet——
A huge head suddenly appeared on the platform, almost startling him. It was actually a lion's head, with a fiery red mane, a broad chin and a flat forehead, and the pale silver eyes looked extremely graceful——
But he still looked a little sleepy, so he raised his paws and rubbed his eyes.
Then it suddenly spoke:
"Ah, you are back. I saw someone lighting a fire on the island earlier, and I knew it was you," it yawned, "but you haven't come over for a long time, and I fell asleep again."
"Hello, Mr. Reid," Tian Lan waved to the lion with a smile: "Brother Ed, this is Mr. Reid. He is a friend of sister Attila. A noble lion-man Templar, Ma
The Irish Paladin."
Fang Plover has now recognized the opponent's race - the golden land of Lotao, the aloof people in the gray field, who regard honor and loyalty as their life, the big cats of Malland - the lions of Lotao.
The lion man also looked at him with narrow eyes.
"Well -" it muttered: "Another little human boy, hello."
"Another one?" Fang Yu turned back to look at Luo Yu.
Luo Yu coughed for the first time.
…
Traveler's Rest, Dragon Horn Hall.
The dark hall presented a completely different scene from the bright lights not long ago - it was empty and silent, the diffuse black fog was dissipating little by little, and a thick layer of dust was left on the overturned tables, chairs and utensils.
.
Except that there are no spreading spider threads, it is like a scene that has not been seen for many years:
The dragon, dragonmen, guests and guards all disappeared, leaving only the scene like after a disaster.
The ferocious giant horn hanging on the dome above the hall has long since disappeared, leaving only a broken 'skylight'. Starlight pours down, forming a pillar of light in the center of the hall, and the clear brilliance shines on the central stone platform.
Twelve giant stone sculptures hold up the stone plate, with a shining golden ring on it.
In the darkness, a gaze fell on this ring that no one cared about.
The smoke suddenly fell and condensed into a figure wearing a cloak, but the hood of the cloak had been torn off by a bullet, revealing half of the handsome face underneath.
She has short silver hair that sticks smoothly to her cheeks, a pair of long pointed ears, and her narrow and beautiful eyes have a heart-wrenching beauty, but they are a little cold. The depths of her silver eyes reflect the fire of golden flames.
The young man stretched out his hand towards the stone platform, wiped out the golden fire, and held it in his hand.
A rush of footsteps came from behind——
The young man turned around and frowned, just in time to see that annoying face appear in his field of vision. After running such a long distance, the latter was slightly out of breath, but when Zhang Tianmiao saw the young man, he immediately
He raised his magic gun and pointed it at the opponent.
He was immediately stunned again.
"You are..." Zhang Tianmiao looked at that face with surprise in his eyes, and blurted out: "Wait a minute!"
But the boy's figure is gradually fading.
Seeing this, Zhang Tianmiao pulled the trigger without hesitation. A flash of fire suddenly appeared, and the lead bullet penetrated the opponent's body and hit the wall behind him with a loud bang, causing stone chips to fly.
But the young man just looked at him steadily, his figure rippled like water patterns, and finally disappeared.
Zhang Tianmiao was so angry that he kicked the chair beside him and flew it away.
"Remember my rules?" At this time, a voice came from the other side of the hall. Zhang Tianmiao turned around and saw the owner of the hotel, a tall man, walking out of that direction with a serious expression: "The damage is to
Compensation ten times the price——"
"You still care about this?" Zhang Tianmiao said angrily: "Where have you been? Did you see that guy took that thing away?"
"indeed so."
Mazak answered some questions that were wrong.
He raised his head and stared blankly at the hole in the dome of the Dragon Horn Hall and the dragon horn that was no longer there.